@matt..Thank you your assistance. If a plugin is free or not you at least expect some kind of support if they offer it. I believe they have a support button so they do. A simple acknowledgment would suffice.
I have fixed the issue and it appears it was a poll plugin conflicting with BuddyPress. Issue now resolved.
As for my hosting I contacted my hosting company and they advised me not to upgrade, seems they dont want my money! ring a ring a roses comes to mind! However the advised me to install a WP Super Cache plugin which was nice of them.
Yes I am on shared hosting, although I dont think that has anything to do with it! I think possiblt some sort of javascript conflict with the theme’s slider?